Nagios-users digest, Vol 1 #1903 - 6 msgs

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Subject: Nagios-users digest, Vol 1 #1903 - 6 msgs


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> Today's Topics:
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>    1. RE: Additional Monitoring (Peter Edmonds)
>    2. RE: tomcat monitoring (Patrick Soltani)
>    3. user authentication in cgi.cfg (Yao, Jack)
>    4. RE: Two instances of nagios on one machine (C. Bensend)
>    5. please ignore my previous post about user authentication, I found
>        out what was missing (Yao, Jack)
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> Message: 1
> From: "Peter Edmonds" <pedmonds.nagios at boursedata.com.au>
> To: "Subhendu Ghosh" <sghosh at sghosh.org>,
> "Brian Hendrix" <bhendrix at stthomas.org>
> Cc: <nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net>
> Subject: RE: [Nagios-users] Additional Monitoring
> Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2004 13:33:25 +1100
>
> Hi Brian,
>
> Assuming that the events you want to monitor are logged in the Event Log
> (for your Windows boxes), you could centralise yor Windows event logs
using
> Eventlog to Syslog Utility from
> https://engineering.purdue.edu/ECN/Resources/Documents/UNIX/evtsys/
>
> and the logsurfer plugin from
> http://naplax.sourceforge.net/check_logsurfer.html
>
> in conjunction with logsurfer from http://www.cert.dfn.de/eng/logsurf/
>
> These 3 utils are easy to setup and make the task of monitoring Windows
> Event Logs much simpler.
>
> Peter Edmonds
> BourseData
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net
> [mailto:nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net]On Behalf Of Subhendu
> Ghosh
> Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2004 10:03 AM
> To: Brian Hendrix
> Cc: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Additional Monitoring
>
>
> On Wed, 18 Feb 2004, Brian Hendrix wrote:
>
> > I have been tasked with evaluating Nagios as a replacement for Command
> > Post (we call it compost!). They want $140,000 to upgrade and buy
> > additional licenses for our servers!
> >
> > I am past the initial setup phase and our Director is impressed by what
> > he sees. I am monitoring Novell, Windows (2000, XP), Linux, and Unix
> > without any issues. However, the Intel Team Leader wants to be able to
> > monitor what I call "environmentals." They currently use:
> >
> > Insight Manager (HP),
> > Open Manage (Dell), and
> > Director (IBM).
> >
> > These tools, however, do not, as far as I know, contact you when
> > certain events occur such as:
> >
> > High CPU, chassis temperatures,
> > Redundant power supply failures, or
> > hardware failures (disk failure in RAID array).
> >
> > I was hoping someone could start by pointing me in the right direction
> > for monitoring these "environmentals" in Nagios. I would need to monitor
> > these in Windows and Novell environments.
> >
> > Thanks, in advance, for any assistance.
>
> There is a contrib - check_compaq_insight.pl (needs a bit of a cleanup)
>
> I'm in the middle of a Dell Openmanager plugin (should be out this week)
> (had a redundant ps go out last week :( )
>
> I have not heard anything about IBM - but if the MIBs are available, it
> should't take a day or so... :)
>
> --
> -sg
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> Message: 2
> Subject: RE: [Nagios-users] tomcat monitoring
> Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2004 14:15:10 -0800
> From: "Patrick Soltani" <PSoltani at iitcorporation.com>
> To: "Sam Terburg - Luna.nl" <Sam at Luna.nl>
> Cc: <nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net>
>
>
> >=20
> > you could check via snmp if a process called java is still running.
>
> Security is an issue with snmp for this client, even v3 is not good =
> enough for them :-(.
>
> > or you could check if the ajp/warp port is still open.
>
> Right now just doing that, but it does not verify if the application on =
> that port is working tho. Only the port is open.
>
> > or you could simple write a jsp page (or use an existing=20
> > page) to check via
> > your apache box.
> > the apache box will talk ajp13/warp (i assume that what you mean with
> > binary) for you.
>
> Good point, will look into this.
>
>
> > or start an httpconnector in tomcat specific for this monitoring.
>
> Yup, monitoring port 8888, but the flaw with this is that it doesn't =
> tell if tomcat application is doing ok, only the port 8888 that talks to =
> tomcat is doing ok.=20
>
> > or write a script that greps the catalina/ajp/warp logs for
> > errors/timestamp-marks.
>
> Seems reasonable to do this.
> Many thanx for your input.  Love the nagios mailing list ;-).
>
> Regards,
> Patrick Soltani.
>
>
>
> >=20
> > Sam Terburg
> > Luna.nl
> >=20
> >=20
> > ----- Original Message -----=20
> > From: "Patrick Soltani" <PSoltani at iitcorporation.com>
> > To: <nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net>
> > Sent: Wednesday, February 18, 2004 21:37
> > Subject: [Nagios-users] tomcat monitoring
> >=20
> >=20
> > Hi,
> >=20
> > I have a tomcat box that DOES NOT do any http, that's handled=20
> > by another
> > apache box.
> > Reading the docs on tomcat, I understand the "call protocol" for this
> > software is in binary.  searching http://alltheweb.com,=20
> http://google.com,
> etc does not turn up anything useful.
>
> I wonder if anyone has any a pointer, url, etc on Tomcat monitoring via
> Nagios.
>
> Thanx and regards,
> Patrick Soltani.
>
>
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> Message: 3
> From: "Yao, Jack" <jyao at aav.com.au>
> To: "Nagios mail user list (nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net)"
> <nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net>
> Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2004 14:09:49 +1100
> Subject: [Nagios-users] user authentication in cgi.cfg
>
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> Hi ,
>
> I've read the document about the cgi authentication part and it said to
set
> up the "use_authentication" to be anything but zero , say 1 in order to
> activate the user authenticatin part and I've done just that. I've changed
> the value in cgi.cfg and restart nagios service.
>
> Problem is that Nagios still does not ask user to login when access web
> interface.  I've looked in FAQ but there is nothing else mentioned beside
> setting up that value in cgi.cfg.
>
> The permission I have to nagios for cgi.cfg is 755, is that anything to do
> with this ?
>
> ta
>
> J
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> <DIV><SPAN class=484305302-19022004><FONT face=Verdana size=1>I've read
the
> document about the cgi authentication part and it said to set up the
> "use_authentication" to be anything but zero , say 1 in order to
activate
> the user authenticatin part and I've done just that. I've changed the
value
> in cgi.cfg and restart nagios service.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
> <DIV><SPAN class=484305302-19022004><FONT face=Verdana
> size=1></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
> <DIV><SPAN class=484305302-19022004><FONT face=Verdana size=1>Problem is
that
> Nagios still does not ask user to login when access web
interface. 
> I've looked in FAQ but there is nothing else mentioned beside setting up
that
> value in cgi.cfg.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
> <DIV><SPAN class=484305302-19022004></SPAN> </DIV>
> <DIV><SPAN class=484305302-19022004><FONT face=Verdana size=1>The
permission I
> have to nagios for cgi.cfg is 755, is that anything to do with
this
> ?</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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> <DIV><SPAN class=484305302-19022004><FONT face=Verdana
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> Message: 4
> Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2004 21:27:48 -0600 (CST)
> Subject: RE: [Nagios-users] Two instances of nagios on one machine
> From: "C. Bensend" <benny at bennyvision.com>
> To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
>
>
> > I don't think the same binary (specially the cgis, not nagios-daemon)
> > behave if running two instances
> >
> > You have to either recompile each instance or apply Russell Scibetti's
> > patch and set location info using Apache environment.
>
> Not sure I follow you...
>
> Both instances of Nagios (1.1 and 2.0) are running from their own
> namespace (/home/nagios and /home/nagios2), both were compiled using
> configure flags to specify the URLs, etc, and the nagios v2.0 binary
> was renamed to nagios2.  The Nagios v2 wasn't recompiled, it was just
> compiled with the right flags for my environment.  :)
>
> And of course Apache needed to be configured, but that was a simple
> matter.  Each instance has its correct CGI binaries.
>
> Am I missing something, Subhendu?
>
> Benny
>
>
> -- 
> "Have you ever tried simply turning off the TV, sitting down with your
> children, and hitting them?"                   -- Bender, "Futurama"
>
>
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> Message: 5
> From: "Yao, Jack" <jyao at aav.com.au>
> To: "Nagios mail user list (nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net)"
> <nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net>
> Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2004 14:50:41 +1100
> Subject: [Nagios-users] please ignore my previous post about user
authentication, I found
>  out what was missing
>
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> Hi ,
> please ignore my previous post about user authentication, I found out what
> was missing.
>
> cheers
>
> J
>
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